Valentin, I created a new ticket for positional tags in trac: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3460 If it doesn't reflect what you meant or if I forgot something, please add that to the ticket.
Bruno On 31 March 2011 00:12, Bruno Girin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 12:57 +0200, Valentín wrote: >> Hi Vincent! >> >> > The people tagging system will be implemented into Shotwell 0.10 through >> > this request: hierarchical tags <http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1401> >> >> I have read that and I don't see any relation with my people-tagging >> proposal. That is about having hierarchical tags, but my proposal is >> to have... I don't know how to explain it... maybe I could say >> positional tags, a tag that is attached to some area of a photo rather >> than to an entire photo. This way we could tag people faces to not >> only know that a concrete person is in some photo, but also know >> where. >> >> Do you understand me? > > Valentin, > > I think you're right and hierarchical tags are not really related to > what you are talking about. You could implement positional tags like > Facebook does: a lot simpler than face recognition but would do the > trick. You can then add face recognition later to automate (or partially > automate) the process. > > Having said this, even implementing the simple version of positional > tags is not straightforward as you would have to change the Shotwell > database schema to implement the tag-photo link outside of the tag table > so that you can assign the position on a tag+photo basis. Not the end of > the world but it would need to be done carefully and with the right > hooks to upgrade the database schema when users upgrade Shotwell. > > >> >> I think that this would be the first step to implement >> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1702 --and the face recognition feature >> would automatize the process. > > I'd actually consider this as the last piece to implement: get the > positional tags with manual tagging (à la Facebook) working first and > then you can add face recognition on top to automate it. > > Cheers, > > Bruno > > > -- Bruno Visit my weblog: http://brunogirin.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
